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Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts about the considerations George W. Bush and Al Gore are taking into account, as they select their Vice Presidential running mates. Both Gore and Bush talked about the selection process yesterday.

Alison Richards of NPR News begins a three part series on osteoperosis. Today she details how the disease has become a public health crisis in such a short period of time. No one realized the size of the problem until the accountants took a look at the heath care costs.

Some members of Congress are concerned that taxpayers aren't getting their money's worth when the federal government sells and swaps land in the West. NPR's Howard Berkes reports that an audit of Western land transactions by the General Accounting Office has found questionable deals.

The General Accounting Office released a study today that public school buildings and facilities throughout the country are in disrepair. The problems include plumbing, heating and crumbling foundations. NPR's Cheryl Devall reports that local school districts are calling for more federal and state funding to help solve these problems.

KENNEDY - Presidential politics have stalled legislation aimed at guaranteeing that workers can keep their health coverage when they lose or leave jobs. The fight is over a controversial provision that would allow workers to create medical savings accounts instead of insurance. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

NASA investigators are continuing to comb through telemetry data and internal records, examine debris and evaluate other sources of information includic home videos and eyewitess accounts. Meanwhile the remains of the astronauts arrive at Dover Air Force Base. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

Seven Americans were among those killed in a helicopter crash today in Vietnam. The aircraft was carrying a team searching for Americans missing in action during the Vietnam war. Lt. Col. Franklin Childress, of the Joint Task Force Full Accounting, speaks with host Lisa Simeone.

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Back in the seventeenth century, explorers told of seas teeming with giant marine creatures. A group of researchers concluded that these were an accurate account of life in the oceans at the time. As John Nielsen reports, these fabulous aquatic ecosystems collapsed as humans started to hunt these creatures.

Liane Hansen speaks with Conor O'Clery of the Irish Times newspapers about his new book, "Daring Diplomacy" (Scribner). The book is an account of President Clinton's involvement in the peace process in Northern Ireland.